Not content with banning Christmas in 2016, the country’s supreme grinch, Kim Jong Un, has taken it one step further by prohibiting gatherings that involve alcohol and singing, according to South Korea’s National Intelligence Service (NIS).

The reform movement, led by disgruntled members of the intellectual and clerical elite, challenged the regime’s orthodoxies and even called for making the office of the supreme leader accountable to the electorate.

President Eisenhower was known for many things, including being the supreme commander of Allied forces in Western Europe and overseeing the D-Day invasion and the eventual defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II.

And while standing atop the sacred mountain, the supreme leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, in full control of the wind and the snow and the clouds, chose to make a few declarations, according to the article.

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